Ban Billionaires: Fascism Fix

By Esme Mees and Rita Shelby

Ban Billionaires: Fascism Fix is a furious, visually driven anti-billionaire book about class power, capitalist mythology, ecological destruction, and the corporate form of fascism that hides behind philanthropy, innovation, and "success." It argues plainly that billionaires are not signs of a healthy society but evidence of a system designed to concentrate wealth, break democracy, and normalize human and planetary sacrifice for private gain.

What makes this book distinct is its alternating structure. It moves between fiction and nonfiction, pairing story sections about a working family trapped in the machinery of exploitation with political commentary on meritocracy, labor, robber-baron power, environmental devastation, and billionaire ideology. That back-and-forth gives the book a stronger emotional rhythm than straight polemic alone. The analysis names the system; the fiction shows what it feels like to live under it.

The visual language matters here too. The interior prints are stark, black-and-white, and expressionistic, with gaunt workers, looming industrial structures, smoke, money imagery, and distorted figures that make wealth feel predatory rather than glamorous. The factory scenes, the harsh class contrasts, and the almost allegorical social grotesques give the book a heavier atmosphere than a standard political tract. The images do not just illustrate the argument. They help carry the moral scale of it, making the world of extraction, hoarding, and opposition feel immediate and lived-in.

This is a book for readers thinking about billionaires, capitalism, fascism, labor exploitation, class warfare, economic inequality, corporate capture, climate destruction, and what real opposition might require. It is political, angry, and direct, but it is also built with form in mind. By pairing story, commentary, and image, Ban Billionaires becomes more than a slogan book. It becomes a sharper case for why extreme wealth is not just unfair, but socially catastrophic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966014104
• ISBN13: 9781966014102
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"